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Oct 01 2020
News
Coronavirus vaccine trial participants report day-long exhaustion, fever and headaches — but say it’s worth it
Luke Hutchison woke up in the middle of the night with chills and a fever after taking the Covid-19 booster shot in Moderna’s vaccine trial. Another coronavirus vaccine trial participant, testing Pfizer’s candidate, similarly woke up with chills, shaking so hard he cracked a tooth after taking the second dose.
High fever, body aches, bad headaches and exhaustion are just some of the
CNBC
Sep 28 2020
News
Breonna Taylor Grand Juror Demands Release of Court Transcript, Records
A grand juror in Breonna Taylor’s case has filed a motion demanding the full release of transcripts and records from the secret proceedings. “The full story and absolute truth of how this matter was handled from beginning to end is now an issue of great public interest and has become a large part of the discussion of public trust throughout the country,” an attorney for the unnamed juror wrote
Daily Beast
Nov 06 2019
News
Ex-Twitter employees accused of spying for Saudi Arabia
Two former employees of Twitter have been charged in the US for spying for Saudi Arabia.
The charges, unsealed on Wednesday in San Francisco, allege that Saudi agents sought personal information about known Saudi critics and other Twitter users.
Court documents published by the Washington Post named the two as Ahmad Abouammo, a US citizen, and Ali Alzabarah, from Saudi Arabia.
BBC News
Jul 15 2019
News
O'Rourke says he and his wife are descended from slave owners
White House hopeful Beto O'Rourke on Sunday revealed that he and his wife, Amy, are descended from slave owners.
The former Democratic congressman from Texas wrote in a Medium post that he was recently given documents showing that his paternal great-great-great grandfather listed two women, Rose and Eliza, as his possessions.
"That those enslaved Americans owned by my ancestors
The Hill
Aug 03 2020
Background
Voter impersonation (United States)
Voter impersonation (also sometimes called in-person voter fraud)[1] is a form of electoral fraud in which a person who is eligible to vote in an election votes more than once, or a person who is not eligible to vote does so by voting under the name of an eligible voter.[1] In the United States, voter ID laws have been enacted in a number of states by Republican legislatures and governors
Wikipedia
Sep 12 2013
News
D.C. executive linked to secret 2008 aid to Hillary Clinton
Jeffrey Thompson the D.C. businessman at the center of a ongoing campaign finance investigation secretly spent more than half a million dollars on get-out-the-vote efforts according to interviews and court documents.
Washington Post
Mar 11 2020
News
Dine out or eat in during the coronavirus crisis? Here's what public health and food safety experts say
Not on the menu for many these days: dining out.
As our fears of catching the coronavirus grow by the day, so has our hesitation to venture out of the house, especially now that COVID-19 has been officially classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
A party of one, two or four around the kitchen or dining room table is sounding a lot more appealing to many people
USA TODAY
Aug 02 2021
News
Where a Vast Global Vaccination Program Went Wrong
After months of struggle, the U.N.-backed Covax alliance will soon have many more doses, promising relief for vaccine shortages in poorer countries. But it faces a deepening crisis: difficulties getting shots into arms as the Delta variant spreads.
Deaths from Covid-19 were surging across Africa in June when 100,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived in Chad. The delivery
New York Times (News)
Dec 22 2020
Opinion
25 Times Big Tech Claimed They Censored Conservatives by Mistake
Big Tech has eviscerated free speech on social media. There have been at least 25 famous, well-documented examples of when Big Tech companies censored conservatives, allegedly by mistake since August 7. 2018.
Conservatives ranging from President Donald Trump to conservative commentator Candace Owens and entire news outlets like the New York Post have been erroneously censored, and
NewsBusters
Dec 22 2020
News
Murders of journalists more than double worldwide
Globally, at least 30 journalists were killed in 2020; 21 of those were singled out for murder in retaliation for their work, a jump from the previous year’s 10 murders, while others were killed in combat or crossfire or on another assignment that turned dangerous. One media worker was also killed. Mexico, Afghanistan, and the Philippines had the most retaliatory killings.
CPJ is still
Committee to Protect Journalists